Prayer shapes belief. As we worship – so we live. “Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi”. We need to be very careful, then, in the regular and central fare that nourishes most of us, most of the time. At core moments prayer has placed us, by being drawn into Christ’s body, to pray with, in,
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Who would have predicted, a few years ago, that cooking shows would be found so gripping by many?! That cooking competitions would be regarded as “Reality” TV?! I was recently in the capital, Wellington. There’s a shortage of bookshops in post-quake Christchurch so I naturally walked in to one of the largest bookshops in the
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How often do you pray the psalms? How often would you pray through the entire psalter? All the psalms? Or do you leave out some psalms; some psalm verses? Do you find a psalm version that’s more helpful for prayer (individually, together) than your regular Bible translation that’s designed more for accuracy than for prayer?
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Christchurch “city” is glum, grey, and empty. Acres of empty grey spaces, rubble, and the ever-present sound of cascading debris, and metal dinosaurs chewing their way through munted buildings. Fog and grey skies. That’s not even mentioning the people sleeping out in cars, vans, etc. because they have not been helped yet after quakes a
There’s a lot of … ummmm… awkward stuff in the Bible (I’m using “awkward” to be polite). Recently, for example, I wrote about Numbers 5:11-31 where a man (and in the Bible it’s always the man isn’t it!) gets a suspicion that his wife has been unfaithful and, having no evidence, the Bible has a
A motion from Christchurch will be moved at the July meeting of General Synod Te Hinota Whanui (GSTHW) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The motion to GSTHW will bring forward our diocesan concern. Christchurch passed the following unanimously at our September synod 2011: “That this Synod… asks the Standing Committee
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I am all in favour of appropriate technology. I recently wrote about using the iPad at the Eucharist. There have been useful discussions about this here and elsewhere. Some of the better points I have seen have been the suggestion that the cantor at the Easter Vigil use an iPad when chanting the Exsultet (Exultet).
An open letter to the Commission on the Ordination and Blessing of People in Same Sex Relationships (Ma whea/Mei fe kei fe/Where to? Commission) In the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia the members of the Commission on the Ordination and Blessing of People in Same Sex Relationships have been announced. They are
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